SwingDJs

Hi,
My name is Tom and I'm a rather new DJ to the Chicago Scene (been dancing for years now). I've been a regular DJ at Java Jive for awhile now and I'm one of the new amateur DJs at Fizz. Additionally, I have spun at other various events here and there (not too many). I think I've done ok thus far. I would like to add some new music to my collection and would also like to challenge all of you at the same time while asking for suggestions.

Hypothetically, if you had to spin at a 1.5 to 2 hour event and only allowed to have 15 CD's plus 3 backups (18 Total) which ones would they be?

Here's is a list of my choices.
(Greatest Hits and mutli discs sets ok but no homemade mixes)

Gölz Alsmann
1. Gestatten

Basie
2. Williams Sings Basie Swings
3. The Complete Atomic Basie
4. Chairman of the Board

William Bradley
5. Beat Me Daddy to a Boggie Woggie Beat

Cab Calloway
6. Are You Hep to the Jive

Lionel Hampton
7 & 8 The Legendary Decca Recordings (Discs 1 & 2)

Buddy Johnson
9. Walk "em

Jimmie Lunceford
10. The Music of Jimmie Lunceford (American Jazz Orchestra Performong)

Jay McShann
11. The Last of the Blue Devils

Lucky Millander
12 & 13 Apollo Jump (Discs 1 & 2)

Ella Mae Morse
14 The Very Best of Ella Mae Morse

Various
15 Oscillatin' Rhythm

Backups
Hot Lips Page
16. Jump for Joy

Artie Shaw
17. The Complete Grammercy Five Sessions

Gene Krupa, Roy Elridge with Antia O'Day
18. Uptown

Have fun and Stay Hep
Tom

It's a good list , but I'd throw the Frankie compilation there. And it seems like a crime that you don't have a single CD for Duke, Ella and Louis Armstrong.

Serg

1. Sidney Bechet Blues in Thirds
2,3. Anthology of Big Band Swing
4. Ken Burns Jazz Best of Count Basie
5. Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson
6. Artie Shaw Gramercy Five
7. Classic Columbia Condon Mob Sessions vol. 1 (w/George Wettling)
8. Louis Armstrong Satch Plays Fats
9. Fats Waller Centennial Collection
10. Ken Burns Jazz Best of Duke Ellington
11. Jack Teagarden Misery and the Blues
12. Jack Teagarden Jazz Great
13. Artie Shaw Original Radio Transcriptions 1938
14. Sidney Bechet - The Fabulous Sidney Bechet
15. Benny Goodman - The Legendary Small Groups
16. Ella and Louis again
17. Henry Red Allen - World on a String
18. Jimmie Lunceford - Lunceford Special